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Charlotte and James helped out the Green Shoots team last week at Middlemarsh, North Ormesby. As well as litter picking, Charlotte and James managed to remove a tree that had fallen and was blocking the beck and obstructing the flow of water. Keeping the becks clean and free from debris is a really important part of the work on the Green Shoots project!
The team also had a Zoom site visit from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) last week where they were taken on a virtual tour around Middlemarsh and were given the opportunity to speak to some of the kickstarters and volunteers.
DEFRA came back to us with some great feedback, “I just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU from the whole [Green Shoots] team for your work on these digital site visits! We’ve just been buzzing on our group teams chat about how great it was, how engaging Jade and Colin were and how lovely and insightful it was to hear from the Kickstarters and volunteers. Makes us proud to be working on this fund! Thanks again and please pass on our thanks to the team at Green Shoots ?”.
Well done to everyone on Green Shoots Project for their continued hard work on Middlemarsh, and a huge thank you to DEFRA for their fantastic feedback!
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Jennys Pasta is now available in social supermarkets around Middlesbrough thanks to the extraordinarily hard work and dedication from researchers from Fuse, clinicians from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust , Teesside University and the Middlesbrough Food Partnership alongside ourselves. Together, this amazing coalition worked with people living with SMI to develop a range of nutritious recipes that can be transformed into affordable ready meals using surplus ingredients. The first batch, Lentil Bolognese, is now available in social supermarkets across Middlesbrough.
The pilot is the culmination of earlier research into food insecurity in the North of England, as well as into how people living with SMI can be supported to access healthy, affordable food, which was hosted by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Teesside University, Newcastle University , Fuse and Equally Well UK (a collaborative hosted by the Centre for Mental Health), and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, as part of their NIHR Research for Patient Benefit – Mental Health in the North programme.
We are proud of the hard work done by the partners and by our phenomenal Middlesbrough Food Partnership team to make a real difference to those living with SMI and tackling food insecurity. Well done, everybody: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we're proud to have taken that first step alongside you all in this initiative.
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People living with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) have created a nutritious ready meal as part of a year-long research study to tackle food insecurity and improve access to quality food in Middlesbrough.Upcoming Events
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